Also known as UCMP V3916

Where: Kern County, California (35.1° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 115.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Santa Margarita Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• up section from the Comanche Point local fauna, probably early but possibly late Clarnedonian mammalian age, late middle Miocene, approximately 12-12 m.y. old, but possibly somewhat younger; age after Scheirer and Magoon 2007

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and R. H. Tedford. 1977. Otarioid seals of the Neogene. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 992:1-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152101: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.11.2013

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